01 June, 2017

Trump's exit from Paris deal signals the end of American century

President Donald Trump’s stunning words and actions to our European allies this weekculminating in reports that he will exit the historic Paris climate agreementsignal the end of the American Century.
By exiting the Paris climate deal, President Donald Trump
 is handing over global leadership to Chinese President Xi Jinping,
seen here with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in January. 
Rather than strive to maintain the United States’ position as the leader of the free world, a role we have assigned to ourselves for decades, Trump is content with America the villainthe greedy and myopic country that killed humanity’s last, best hope of avoiding catastrophic climate change. Also, by abandoning clean energy, which is the one new sector capable of actually creating millions of high wage American jobs, Trump is officially handing the economic reins over to Europe and China.

Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the Obama era echoed that sentiment of Twitter Wednesday morning.

“America is responsible, to herself as well as to history, for the world environment in which she lives,” wrote publisher Henry Luce in a famous February 17, 1941 Life magazine editorial, “The American Century.”


Read Joe Romm’s story on RenewEconomy - “Trump's exit from Paris deal signals the end of American century.”

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